Carrie Olivia Adams

Carrie Olivia Adams lives in Chicago, where she edits poetry for Black Ocean, publicizes books for the University of Chicago Press, and finds lots of uses for mason jars. She is the author of Intervening Absence (Ahsahta 2009), Forty-One Jane Doe's (book and DVD, Ahsahta 2013), and the chapbook "Overture in the Key of F" (above/ground press 2013).

Praise

Her spare lyrics emphasize the role of the individual surrounded with the ineffable qualities of silence and empty space: ‘If there is a footnote to absence,’ she writes, ‘it is the beating heart.’